Without Ease Learning Skillways, changes to the contents of a course need to be made in each incidence of the course and sections, which can be a long, arduous process. With Skillways, a change can be made to the source content, and those changes are automatically distributed to every instance. Mapping competencies isn’t native to the LMS making it difficult if not impossible. Integrate into any LTI compatible LMS, so mapping is fast, easy, and accurate The LMS tracks limited value data points such as number of log-ins and length of log-in. Skillways tracks how learners engage with specific content not just how long they are in the system. Typically, course development and modification of content requires significant training. Skillways is a user-friendly, easy to use system. No extensive training or special skills are required.

Transform your learning products

Ease Skillways™ is a full featured skills-based learning experience solution. It enables skills-based learning design and mapping, embedded delivery of modular stackable learning experiences in any LMS or equivalent, and rich data/analytics grounded in the granular measurement of achievement of skills to track in real time and yield true currency for credentialing.

Skillways is the secret sauce that transforms the courses designed by Ease Learning or your team and provides a structure for the incremental building and measurement of learner’s skills. 

Courses designed in Skillways can be used with your existing LMS or independent of the LMS and if your school migrates to a new LMS - no problem.  Your courses become LMS agnostic.

Can you afford to wait to build programs that close the skills gap? Read more here.

Flexible Learning Pathways

Curriculum is presented to learners in Learning Paths that sequence, scaffold and provide insights into the learner’s progress along the way. Best practices are embedded and the learner has access to a variety of learning experiences bringing equity to the learning process. 

Skillways changes the way your learners interact with and synthesize the content.  Skillways has over 200 assessment types that are integrated into the software, so no matter what type of material is presented, there will be an assessment type that helps build a level of insight into the learner progress that has not been previously attainable.  The result is higher order thinking and a deeper level of skill attainment. Skillways technologizes learning design, so best practices are built into the pathways in a way that is not natively found in other systems.

Modularized, Reusable content  

Skillways enables content to be constructed with modularity in mind. Each learning path can be designed for the exact duration you desire, offering learning in bite sized chunks that align to specific outcomes and skills. Learning paths are also reusable and from one source of content, they can be replicated and used to align to different learning outcomes. We call this syndication. If you are looking to create truly stackable credentials, Skillways offers the platform designed exactly for this purpose. 

Outcome mapping at all levels

The need for workforce aligned programs has never been greater. Until now, it’s been difficult to deliver online courses that provided insight into how the learner is developing skills and what level of competency is being mastered and how the outcomes align to workforce needs. Skillways solves for this.

Skillways allows for granular outcomes to be mapped to course, program, institutional and workforce goals, resulting in an online learning product that is highly relevant to the student, and is aligned to workforce needs, while also ensuring that program and institutional goals are considered.

Here is an example of outcome mapping in Skillways.

Skillways also allows you to integrate industry skills data from leading labor market providers such as Burning Glass, Emsi and other emerging taxonomies. This allows us to ensure that programs and courses are aligned to workforce needs and leads learners to a path of targeted, productive employment options.

Granular Performance Metrics 

Learning activities can be linked to specific learning outcomes and skills with Ease Learning Skillways. By associating granular rubric based performance metrics to each learning task, there is greater insight into learner progress as well as skill achievement. 

These granular performance metrics quantify achievement of skills and offer evidence of learner competency. 

In Skillways, content can be constructed to incrementally build on prior learning, offering ample practice opportunities and options for feedback. Skillways exposes emerging competency in real time allowing for early detection of equity gaps, and opportunities for intervention to help learners be most successful. Aligning curricular learning opportunities to real world skills allows the learner to hone individual skills and grow their overall capabilities towards marketable skills and career paths. 

Here’s an example of mapping to skills taxonomies.

Heatmap to Learner Performance

Online courses traditionally have insight only to completion and time on task and produce letter grades which do not accurately represent granular skill development. Skillways identifies actionable data related to skill development and outcome achievement.  

Skillways delivers a heatmap of learner progress that any registered user can tap into.  The heatmap (shown below) shows the progress of an individual or a consolidated view of a cohort.

Continuous Improvement

The technology behind Skillways creates a feedback loop of data for continuous improvement in preparing learners and offers quantifiable evidence of their achievements.  The Learning Data team at Ease Learning continually reviews and analyzes the learner data and meets with your team on a regular basis, even after the course or program has been launched to provide actionable recommendations on how to optimize the learning experience and outcomes.

Scaling and Syndicating

Ease Skillways is IMS Global Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) compliant which allows seamless integration into any LTI compliant LMS or application, and it allows you to syndicate content developed with Skillways to as many other LMS as you’d like from a single source that you maintain. All content created in Skillways is re-skinnable and can be delivered securely via LTI links provided to your users.

Historically content has been held captive and underutilized in the LMS. This platform enables you to license content under a white label and distribute to other delivery platforms while maintaining exclusive control of the IP.

Support for your Accreditation Process 

Courses built using Skillways support planning and mapping accreditation requirements and establish solid documentation of this work. Skillways provides a structure for the incremental mapping, building and measurement of learner’s skills It also allows curriculums to be presented to learners in learning paths that sequence, scaffold and provide insights into the learner’s progress. Each learning path can be linked to the outcomes mapping for accreditation, illuminating the learners progress towards achieving those outcomes in real time. The reporting within Skillways provides documentation that can be used to support your accreditation process.

Skillways FAQ

• Can I still use my LMS with Ease Skillways?

  • Yes, Skillways plugs directly into your LMS to enhance the actionable data to ensure your students are successful.

• What LMS work with Ease Skillways?

  • Skillways can be integrated with popular LMS like Canvas, Blackboard, and Moodle, among many others. Check with us to ensure yours is on the list!

• Do I have to use Ease Learning Design services to use Skillways?

  • No, with our Accelerated Plus model, our team will work to upskill your team to design your own courses on Skillways, but our team is always close by to help through the continuous improvement nature of our Skillways subscription!

• How do I map competencies to outcomes?

  • Each one of the assessments in Skillways can be mapped to a learning outcome to track how the learner is doing on each granular outcome being measured. Connecting this is as easy as checking a box! Sign up for a demo so we can show you!

• How do I update a course designed in the platform?

  • All course content can easily be updated in our simple to use course editor which automatically produces the most recent version back to your LMS with no publishing required.

• Can I use Ease to update a course developed in a different platform?

  • Skillways allows you to edit many destinations of your content in one place - we call this syndication, you will call it magic!

• How do I access the information tracked in Ease Skillways?

  • Skillways has built in dashboards that provide activity completion and performance data, as well as granular outcomes and skills heat maps. In addition we have an API that allows you access to a wide variety of customizable data specific to your desired use case.

• Is there a helpdesk for Ease Skillways?

  • Access to end user support for Skillways is a part of our continuous improvement model and can be expanded to even cover your other tech stack items. Contact us to learn more!

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